Interesting Reading…

Let’s start off slow with a plug for my friend Gregg Hinchman and several of his Cool Solution articles that explain the ins/outs of upgrading to GroupWise 8!! Check out this link and read the current articles and the upcoming articles that he is writing. Great information and background as you plan and execute your upgrade to GroupWise 8!

As Novell continues to press forward in several areas around Collaboration, it appears to be a perfect time as other areas of this space appear to be losing focus and finding some of their own challenges.

As we receive market data from surveys and analyst research, it has also been reported that “2/3 of the Exchange users surveyed are on an Exchange system that is 5 years old or older – now 6. The majority were still on Exchange 2003”

Our own customer base is already running GroupWise 7 – about 88%! In just a few short months, we have seen good uptake on GroupWise 8 and expect a flood of upgrades as GroupWise 8 SP1 releases later this year.

As our customers have found – an investment in GroupWise is a solid and wise choice!

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You mentioned GroupWise 8 SP1 above. We haven’t yet deployed GroupWise 8. If SP1 is just around the corner (so to speak) we might wait for it. But if it is going to be a while we might go ahead with the dot zero release. When is SP1 expected to be publicly available (as non-beta code)?

We are working towards a schedule where GroupWise 8.0.1 will be available at the end of the summer – currently planned for August.

However, between now and then, there are several other things we will be working on and will be making available.

We are planning a GroupWise 8.0.0 HP2. Currently scheduled for May.
We are planning a Public BETA of 8.0.1 – Currently scheduled for June/July
We are working on the mobility solution based on ActiveSync
We are working on Novell Teaming and Novell Conferencing releases
We are working on several other integration and synchronization solutions.

Some of our plans are more concrete, while with others it is still too early to make more formal announcements. Please stay stay tuned as we will communicate our intentions as soon as we can.

This is a great question and one that I would love to provide more details. However, I can’t right now. I can tell you some of the major categories we are targeting for integration work and you may be able to draw some of your own conclusions. We do expect to announce several integrations and a roadmap for others as soon as we can.

Just yesterday, another article was published in Australia about the alternatives to Microsoft Outlook. GroupWise did very well in this comparison even though there were some obvious errors in their evaluation and understanding of the features and capabilities of GroupWise – particularly IM and Presence.

“In May 2007 patient services were hindered in hospitals on Tyneside in the grip of a computer bug. The virus brought hundreds of computers at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Freeman and General hospitals, all in Newcastle, to a standstill over three weeks.

Three months earlier hundreds of patients were unable to book appointments with their doctors after NHS Grampian’s computer system was struck down by a virus.”

It does not mention Exchange anywhere, but the virus does harvest address books and mail itself out – something that has never happened in GroupWise.